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Cheney Weighs Fratricide To Sell War On Iran
Press TV ^ | August 2, 2008

Posted on 08/03/2008 7:35:39 AM PDT by Fennie

Prominent journalist Seymour Hersh exposes details of a plan considered by US Vice President Dick Cheney on how to provoke war with Iran.

"There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war [with Iran]," Hersh said recently in reference to the subject of discussion at a meeting held at Cheney's office.

In a July article published in the New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist revealed information about covert US operations carried out in Iran. He did not disclose the content of the talks with Cheney in his article.

In a recent interview with Think Progress, however, Hersh exposed that the meeting witnessed Cheney mulling over a proposal to dress up Navy SEALs as Iranians and shoot them in order to trigger a war with Iran.

"The one (plan) that interested me the most was why don't we build - we in our shipyard - build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy SEALs on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Strait of Hormuz, start a shoot-up," he revealed in his recent interview...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cluelessidiot; congress; fake; geopolitics; iran; iraq; islam; israel; proliferation; seymourhersh; wot; wr
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1 posted on 08/03/2008 7:35:39 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

“Hersh exposed that the meeting witnessed Cheney mulling over a proposal to dress up Navy SEALs as Iranians and shoot them in order to trigger a war with Iran.”

Hersh is now officially insane


2 posted on 08/03/2008 7:38:32 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists)
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To: Fennie

LOL..needed a good laugh.


3 posted on 08/03/2008 7:39:50 AM PDT by evad (.!.)
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To: Fennie

Prominent urinalist Seymour Hush


4 posted on 08/03/2008 7:40:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I'm a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 1, who won't be voting for McCain.)
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To: Fennie

B*llsh*t.


5 posted on 08/03/2008 7:40:27 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Wars kill soldiers; governments kill civilians." ~ Wayne LaPierre)
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To: Fennie
Ah, Seymour, As eager as ever to publish anything that might be embarrassing to the US as ever, Eh?

Me? I think provoking as much green-on-green warfare as possible is a fine idea...

6 posted on 08/03/2008 7:40:34 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: Fennie

And of course, “we all know” that Pulitzer Prize winning, left-wing authors NEVER make stuff up or exaggerate for effect...


7 posted on 08/03/2008 7:41:53 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Fennie

Hersh is making Gore Vidal (and algore for that matter) sound sane and reasonable in comparison.


8 posted on 08/03/2008 7:42:43 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: nuconvert
“Hersh exposed that the meeting witnessed Cheney mulling over a proposal to dress up Navy SEALs as Iranians and shoot them in order to trigger a war with Iran.”

This guy got this from hitler, that is what hitler did to start his envasion of Poland in 1939. He dressed up prisoners in Polish uniforms and shot them and said they had crossed the border and attacked Germany.

Liberals are all insane and they think we will believe anything. Does this guy have any proof of what he is saying? Nothing? Well isn't that odd.

9 posted on 08/03/2008 7:47:01 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Fennie
Hirsch is a serial liar who has toppled off the edge of reality into the abyss of Bush- and America-hatred.
10 posted on 08/03/2008 7:49:09 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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Hirsch=Hersch; my bad.


11 posted on 08/03/2008 7:50:50 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: nuconvert
Hersh is now officially insane

I suppose Cheney asked him to keep the top secret plans quiet when they chatted. But, being a journalist, he was compelled by his conscience to let the public know.

Wait'll next week, the second part of their conversation had to do with Roswell and . . .

12 posted on 08/03/2008 7:51:00 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Fennie

Hersh has jumped the shark.


13 posted on 08/03/2008 7:52:49 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: Fennie

Delusional moron vastly over-rated on his best day. Presently an insult to morons everywhere.


14 posted on 08/03/2008 7:56:13 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: nuconvert
Hersh is now officially insane

Relatives regret the lack of effectiveness in his experimental Alzheimers drug.

15 posted on 08/03/2008 7:57:32 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: Fennie
"The one (plan) that interested me the most was why don't we build - we in our shipyard - build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy SEALs on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Strait of Hormuz, start a shoot-up,"

Hersh is signalling to his Iranian friends that it's okay for their boats to approach, and even fire on our naval vessels. No matter how aggressive they become, Hersh and his liberal media buddies will provide this cover story that Iran didn't do it, the eevil Bush/Cheney regime did it to us themselves.

16 posted on 08/03/2008 7:59:37 AM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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What he doesn't mention is that these Navy Seals would look a lot like Democratic members of Congress.
17 posted on 08/03/2008 8:02:25 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: evad

that’s not funny, that’s sick...


18 posted on 08/03/2008 8:04:27 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: Fennie

Must be from the Onion, Coast to Coast AM or Alex Jones.


19 posted on 08/03/2008 8:13:45 AM PDT by black_diamond
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To: lonevoice

“The one (plan) that interested me the most was why don’t we build - we in our shipyard - build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy SEALs on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Strait of Hormuz, start a shoot-up,”

Which person, invited to such a high level meeting, would spill to Seymor Hirsch? It doesn’t pass the laugh test, let alone the smell test.


20 posted on 08/03/2008 8:17:02 AM PDT by sobieski
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